Civil 3D Tips, Tricks, Fixes…and more

Month: June 2013

Autodesk has released a Hotfix 1 for Civil 3D 2014. The issues that are resolved are as follows: Corridor Design Importing a subassembly to a tool palette when the tool palette is closed no longer causes the application to close unexpectedly. Closing a drawing while the Corridor Section Editor is open in another drawing no… Read More AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 Hotfix 1

When creating a new local survey database, you might come across an error stating that it cannot open the shared memory region. The cause of this seems to be the Windows User Access Control (UAC). You need to set this to Never Notify… Autodesk has posted this solution here.

Some of you might have noticed that my last blog had a link to a DGN Clean-up Tool. Well from last week until today, it has been pulled. However, Mr. R.K. McSwain has his own post about cleaning up this DGN mess. Read more at R.K.’s weblog here.

Autodesk has released a “clean-up tool” that cleans up unwanted data that comes from Microstation. You can download the hotfix for this and read more about it by clicking the link for “clean-up tool” above.

Autodesk has a solution for controlling the text height in a point table. You might have noticed that if you change the text height, you don’t get the desired result. That’s because you need to change the table size instead, NOT the text height. You can read more here.

I was helping out a customer yesterday to get logged into the Subscription Center when the login boxes went blank. I would click in the box to enter the username and right away the area went blank. I thought it was a fluke, so I logged in using Chrome, no problems. Well today there is… Read More Internet Explorer 10 + Autodesk Subscription = NO Log In!!

Autodesk has released a new update for Civil 3D 2012 that addresses the following issues… Alignments The accuracy of profile station labels that use station index format has been improved. COGO COGO Editor now accepts DMS input containing spaces. Corridor Design An issue that caused a feature line to erroneously span between two stations ignoring… Read More AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 Update 3